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Why do shared folders by others count against my Dropbox space?
The logic provide by Dropbox team earlier is utter nonsense. According to dropbox we are accessing your own COPY of the folder within our account. I dont believe dropbox engineering team has designed such a redundant software. I can understand if they are copied in case other users want to edit the file, but else it is a ridiculous excuse by Dropbox to make money saying "its to cover the increased costs associated with sharing".
And technology is already advanced to allow other users with editing access to files without copying those files.
Can dropbox comment on this?
1 Reply
- Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Rahul2025, and thanks for your post.
When another user shares a folder with you and you add it to your Dropbox account, then you also add all of its data, which will naturally take up space from your Dropbox account like the rest of your personal files.
If you only wish to have view-only access to the folder and you don’t have enough space on your account to add it, you can ask from the owner to share a link to the folder instead. The shared link allows you to view the folder without adding it to your own Dropbox account, thus affecting your quota.
Hope this helps!
